Quilting The Night Away

I thought I’d do a wee close up of all the quilting on the mini I made for yesterday’s blog hop stop. Firstly the dense straight spiral for the coloured boxes. For this I used the inner edge of my walking foot as a guide, and by chance it all came out evenly (more or less ;o) )

Next was the crippling pebbling. These aren’t terribly difficult to do, but you do have to try and avoid getting trapped by smaller and smaller pebbles. I think my first section was a bit small, but I ventured bigger after that. It does use up a rather insane amount of thread mind you, as you go over bits several times!

Taking a break from the FMQ, I tackled the wavy lined blue section next, using a stitch on my machine to get nice, relatively even waves (which might have been cheating, but I don’t care ;o) )

Finally it was onto the pink section, where I used a combination of a sketch from Trudi and a Leah Day video to try and get those darned tessellating snail things, because several people were mean encouraging and said I had to… Oh dear god I’m bad at these. Trudi, I’m so sorry, I mangled them! Having unsewn for about the 5th time, I knew I just had to get on and fight it out, because it was getting later and later on Tuesday night. I’m going with the blind man on a trotting horse approach to critique here ;o)

Overall I enjoyed venturing further into the world of FMQ, but I think I’ll not be doing too many tiny pebbles in the future ;o)

See! No mangled quilting in my class! It looks fantastic from here and I even have my specs on! Don't be so hard on yourself! The great thing about fmq'ing is that it's just like hand writing, we all do it differently and in our own style! good job missus!